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Knock number one opened up vistas no less vast than Rudy's microphone for putting Harvard in the public eye. From purely altruistic motives a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the University band. His name is Charles "Buddy" Rogers and his charming presence has endeared him in the hearts of movie fans the country over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LILIES OF THE VALLEE | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they did in The Silver Tassie (TIME, Nov. 4) and are inclined to roar and brandish when accenting rather than violence is to be desired. To excuse these earnest people on the ground that they have a fine play would be like excusing a schoolgirl pianist because the chords that she fails to strike were conceived by Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revival | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...time has come for us to assume a less aggressive attitude toward Japan. One cannot brandish the mailed fist at one's neighbor and then complain if he shows unfriendliness. I now believe in the sincerity of Japan's desire to enter once more into negotiations with our Government. . . . As soon as negotiations for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wrestling with Shantung | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quest of Youth | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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